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Showing 1 to 20 of 252 for “"Urban landscape"”.
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Pollen allergy in the Icelandic urban landscape
… and reduced biodiversity, mainly seen in the urban landscape. For city dwellers urban green spaces are essential for mental and physical well-being, except if they provide environmental disservices, such as sensitizations to local pollen grains. Urban spaces are created to provide an area of …
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The Post-Communist Urban Landscape of Bucharest, Romania
… examines the formation of the post-communist urban landscape in Bucharest, Romania, with particular emphasis on the consequences of its transition from a centrally planned, communist economic and political structure to that of a free market system. The lasting legacy of failed communism and a …
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Exploding the edge : inversions into the urban landscape
… between building and green space in a dense urban environment in order to create a humane contemplative experience of individual and collective memory. The urban environment has the potential to inform a new attitude for open space which incorporates the building as a landscape element and …
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Contemplation in an urban landscape : a contemporary Cistercian monastery
At the proceedings of the Second Vatican Council from 1963 to 1965, landmark decisions called for the inculturation of the Roman Catholic faith - an attempt to have the faith made more accessible within the context of culture and society. This has led to changes in monastic life for the individual …
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Ecology and Genetics of Blanding's Turtles in an Urban Landscape
… and insularization of remaining habitats through urban development are expected to become major threats to the species' persistence. Most knowledge to date has been generated in areas where habitats are relatively undisturbed by urban development. Consequently, the potential effects of …
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Simulating Urban Landscape Transformation: Implications for Urban Wetlands at Multiple Scales
Urban landscape change simulation has received increasing attention in recent times. As a result, many studies have focused on various aspects of land change simulation, ranging from uncertainty of input data to model accuracy. While efforts have been put into improving many of the existing urban …
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Integrated water design for a decentralized urban landscape: [text and figures]
In the Veneto Città Diffusa, the decentralized urban landscape of the Veneto Region, Northeast Italy, the economic growth of recent decades brought about increased urbanization and agricultural intensification. The process of change has been accompanied by the extension and/or maximization of …
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Chinese American cultural identity in the urban landscape: Sunset Park, Brooklyn
… to Sunset Park, and then evaluates the impact of landscape and other elements in urban design on their community identity. This thesis compares Chinese communities in: 1) central and suburban Toronto, Canada; 2) central and suburban Los Angeles; and 3) Chicago, Illinois. Each of these communities …
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The transmission ecology of Echinococcus multilocularis in a North American urban landscape
… found to infect 29.5% (n = 61) of road-killed urban coyotes (Canis latrans) collected in 2009-2010. For the detection of E. multilocularis eggs in coyote feces, sugar fecal flotation showed lower sensitivity than the ZnCl2 centrifugation and sedimentation protocol (0.46 vs. 0.75). The latter …
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FOURTH SPACE: Sonic & /aural dimensions of Cape Town's historic urban landscape
Focusing on the urban enclave of Cape Town, informally known as the City Bowl, this thesis examines the significance of historic city soundscapes that give shape to its urban heritage. At the levels of international, national, and local governance and in policy documentation, little attention is …
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Finding home : making a place for the homeless in the urban landscape
… problem, and provided for it accordingly in the urban landscape? As roads and water and sewer lines are one type of infrastructure, a diverse mix of dwelling types is another kind of infrastructure - the infrastructure in which we live. This thesis looks at the way the homeless have sheltered …
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Tornado Scars: The Long-term Imprints of Disaster on the Texas Urban Landscape
… long-term imprints of tornadoes upon the built landscape. "Tornado scars" describes the long-term existence of the visual impacts and evidence of historic tornadoes upon the constructed landscape. This research on these scars presents a theoretical framework, details the threat from tornadoes, …
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Urban Morphology and the Chinese Urban Landscape: A Cross-Cultural Application of Theory
… so, there has been a burgeoning of research on urban morphology. A review of publications suggests that this growth is largely associated with the wider recognition of, in advancing the understanding and planning of the built environment, the importance of integrating knowledge on physical urban …
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Redefining order in the urban landscape : a place of interchange in Portland, Maine
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1996.
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Finding God in the urban landscape : a temple for gnosis in upper Manhattan
Nature and Gnosticism are problematic terms. With the discovery of a library of so called heretical Gnostic texts in 1945, theologians, historians, and believers the world over have been exposed to Christian texts that call into question the liturgical lineage of the "one holy catholic and …
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Urban Landscape Management Practices as Tools for Stormwater Mitigation by Trees and Soils
As urban land expands across the globe and impervious surfaces continue to be used for constructing urban infrastructure, stormwater treatment costs and environmental damage from untreated stormwater will rise. Well designed urban landscapes can employ trees and soils to reduce stormwater runoff …
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Inventorying trees in an urban landscape using small-footprint discrete return imaging lidar
Automation of urban tree inventory using remote sensing is needed not only to reduce inventory costs but also to support carbon accounting for urban planners and policy-makers. However, urban areas are heterogeneous and complex, and a more sophisticated approach is needed for using remote-sensing …
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Mosquito Communities and Insect-Specific Viruses in a Heterogenous, Urban Landscape in Puerto Rico
… and socioeconomic factors (SEF) in an urban setting and to characterize the virome of <em>Ae. aegypti</em> in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Mosquitoes were collected in three periods during late 2018 and early 2019 and were identified to the species level. Socioeconomic factors were measured …
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Araucaria in the Urban Landscape: A Novel Leaning Pattern and Evidence of Cultivated Hybridization
… I made on members of <em>Araucaria</em> in the urban forest. The first describes a hemisphere-dependent lean in <em>A. columnaris</em>, and the second provides genetic and morphological evidence that hybrids exist between <em>A. columnaris</em> and <em>A. heterophylla</em>.</p> <p><em>Araucaria …
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